Demand Strategy Design and Integration

One of the key areas of energy saving initiatives driven by facilities management teams in occupied spaces is implementing localised demand strategy.

Demand strategy is the methodology around only supplying air-conditioned services to where they are needed, based on occupancy. Our specialist team has in depth experience in supporting occupiers with amalgamating their local efforts by either collaborating with the landlord and their BMS provider to enable savings, or if the occupiers BMS system allows, they will design a strategy revolved around your own BMS system.

Technik has designed a user centric facilities management platform that enables the user to connect more intuitively, via a 3D floor plan, with their engineering assets. We would envisage the use of indoor air quality sensors, primarily for the function of monitoring CO2 levels across the floors to determine which areas of the floors require air-conditioned supplies as per the normal routine, and which areas are unoccupied which can then in turn can have their supply lowered in turn saving energy used by the main AHUs and local fan coil units.

Our interface can be represented as a 3D floor plan which is dynamic and customisable to accurately depict the areas being monitored.

This floor plan will form a part of the live system and ensures that the user/maintenance manager can easily monitor the heating demands of each individual space.

This methodology allows the site facilities team to easily view areas for occupation density mapping using the CO2 data. The floor layout is also easily adaptable for any space modifications.

The PV cell and battery backed up CO2 wireless sensors are energy harvesting which means they have a battery back-up and also have a solar cell inbuilt. By using wireless sensors, we enable the facilities team to have the flexibility to easily move sensors to suit any on floor fabric modifications.

As an added benefit the system also has modular expansion capabilities.

Technik’s team, home in on the connectivity between varying ‘smart’ devices to assist facilities teams in monitoring various aspects of FM life.

Examples of usage range from incorporating toilet occupancy sensors to assist the cleaning team in assessing the daily routine and priority list for cleaning rest rooms and showers.

Technik also have the capability to completely link their system with the Landlord’s BMS and your head end, ensuring that no system operates in isolation.